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Argylle: Bells and Whistles Can’t Hide Silly Spy Caper’s Shortcomings

Argylle: Bells and Whistles Can’t Hide Silly Spy Caper’s Shortcomings

By Chris Knight

ReviewJim SlotekFebruary 1, 2024Argylle, Spies, Matthew Vaughn, Comedy, Adventure, Action-adventure, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Dua Lipa, Henry Cavill, Catherine O'Hara, Samuel L. Jackson, Bryan CranstonComment

See How They Run: Meta-Treatment of Agatha Christie's Oeuvre is Fact-Based Fun

See How They Run: Meta-Treatment of Agatha Christie's Oeuvre is Fact-Based Fun

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekSeptember 15, 2022Agatha Christie comic homage, See How They Run, Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, The Mousetrap, Adrien Brody, David Oyelowo, Tom George, Mark Chappell, Tom StoppardComment

Richard Jewell: Clint's powerful tale of real-life rush-to-judgment takes a second to shoot itself in the foot

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekDecember 10, 2019Clint Eastwood, Richard Jewell, 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Atlanta Olympics bombing, Paul Walter Hauser, Kathy Bates, Rush-to-judgment, Wrongfully accused, Trial by media, Kathy Scruggs, Olivia Wilde, Jon Hamm, Trading sex for news tips, Sam Rockwell Comments

Jojo Rabbit: Lightness and sweetness that doesn't flinch in the face of horror-as-normality

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekOctober 24, 2019Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi, TIFF Grolsch People's Choice Award, Caging Skies novel, Christine Leunens, Roman Griffin Davis, Scarlett Johansson, Comedies with Nazi themes, Comical portrayals of Hitler, Thomasin McKenzie, Sam Rockwell Comment

What to Watch (and What to Skip) in Theatres This Weekend

The Best of Enemies: TV movie-ish tale of how a Klan leader's heart grew three sizes one day

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekApril 10, 2019The Best of Enemies, Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Taraji P. Henson, Durham, North Carolina, School segregation, Ku Klux Klan, Wes Bentley, Babou Ceesay, Anne Heche, Robin BissellComment

Vice: The Big Short Director’s Biopic of Dick Cheney a Terrifying, Hilarious Bullseye

By Kim Hughes

ReviewDecember 23, 2018Vice, Adam McKay, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Biopic, Eddie Marsan, Sam Rockwell, The Big Short, Comedy, Drama, Tyler Perry, LisaGay Hamilton Comment

Blaze: A soft, touching movie about a not-so-soft forgotten country outlaw

ReviewJim SlotekDecember 11, 2018Blaze Foley, Ethan Hawke, Country outlaws, Mike Judge, Tales from the Tour Bus, Townes Van Zandt, Merle Haggard, Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Charlie Sexton, Josh Hamilton, Kris Kristofferson, Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Richard LinklaterComment

2018 Oscar Noms: Many Are Culled, Few Are Chosen, Some Wuz Robbed

By Liam Lacey, Kim Hughes, Karen Gordon, Jim Slotek and Bonnie Laufer

ViewsJim SlotekJanuary 23, 2018Oscars, Oscars 2018, The Shape of Water, The Florida Project, critics picks, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell